Being the amazing, true-to-life adventures and (very likely) misadventures of a writer who seeks to take his education, activism and seemingly boundless energy to North Minneapolis, (NoMi) to help with a process of turning a rapidly revitalizing neighborhood into something approaching Urban Utopia. I am here to be near my child. From 02/08 to 06/15 this blog pushed free speech to the envelope, so others could take heart and speak unafraid. Email me at hoffjohnw@gmail.com

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Link to Level 3 Predatory Offender Information.

Blog post and screen shots by NoMiStar*

Click the link below to the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) to find your neighborhood perverts.

You can search by zip code or individual names. Apparently the MN DOC fears lynch mobs of angry parents showing up on the door steps of the offenders so only the block numbers or general area is given, despite the fact other states (like Texas) publish the actual addresses. The search of zip code 55411 returned 20 [sic] names!

I ran into NoMiStar* today over by the disgusting little store that was robbed recently--one of the customers shot in the chest--and I was all, like, hey. What the heck. My readers KNOW about that website.

And NoMiStar* told me: New readers might not know about it. Hey, we need to keep the pressure on the perverts.

And I was all, like, OK, cool. Now go write some more stuff.

BTW, if anybody can give a $35 donation and designate it for "license plate research," NoMiStar can get us some interesting information.

You want more info on sex offenders, you are not going to get it from the DOC. Contact your legislator and ask them to change the law. Maybe be like a number of other states and get info on all the sex offenders, not just level 3.

I published your comment but I want to make clear that right now my battle is with the Level Three sex offenders in North Minneapolis, not with the rest of them. In fact, I don't have any evidence that North Minneapolis has more than its fair share of the OTHER sex offenders. It's the L3SOs being dumped here, not the rest, as far as I can tell.